The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 57
Of course, at the very mention of the Enchanter as a rival he was furious, and I don’t know what foolish things he would not have done if Melinette had not been there to calm him down.
Who acts: enchanter, I, thing, Melinette · What happens: be, not know, not do, not be, calm down, mention · To what, where: rival, foolish things, thing, Enchanter
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enchanter, I, thing, Melinette), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 7 mention | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Of | punct |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 mention | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mention | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 mention | advmod |
| 7 | mention | mention | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Enchanter | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Enchanter | det |
| 10 | Enchanter | Enchanter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mention | nmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 rival | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 rival | det |
| 13 | rival | rival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mention | nmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 furious | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 furious | cop |
| 16 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rival | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 know | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 know | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 know | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 know | aux |
| 21 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 know | advmod |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 furious | conj |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 know | ccomp |
| 24 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 things | amod |
| 25 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 what | nsubj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 done | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 done | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 done | advmod |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 done | aux |
| 30 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 things | acl:relcl |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 there | mark |
| 32 | Melinette | Melinette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 there | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 there | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 there | advmod |
| 35 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 there | cop |
| 36 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 done | advcl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 calm | mark |
| 38 | calm | calm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 there | advcl |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 calm | obj |
| 40 | down | down | ADP | _ | 38 calm | compound:prt |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 mention | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | enchanter | a rival not said here | furious property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not do | would · perfect | thing | foolish things not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | not is a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Melinette | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | calm down | to-infinitive | Melinette not said here | thing | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 6 | mention | the Enchanter | as a rival | nom mention «communication transitive»: of=patient as=obl |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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